#I should just improve my English 🤣

[faceglitchsworld]

It's the 5th of February here...you know what that means.

It's Terr-I mean Taehyun's birthday, wohoo!

As always, I've made a collage for him ☺️

Ok, just for clarification, I needed to take a screenshot from his Sugar Rush Ride fancam. Why? Because I needed a picture of him sleeveless. You need to admire his muscles, the boy works out and you need to see the muscles 😤

The selcas on the middle are my favourite of him honestly, he gives such ✨ S W A G ✨ energy, I couldn't not put them.

Enough with the explanation, it's time for the emotional part (there's a language switch here, I'm sorry).

Taehyun is really important to me, especially for this blog's history. I still remember how I was spending the night reblogging birthday content for him when, out of the sudden, I thought: "Wait, isn't it too boring? It's his birthday and I'm just adding the usual tags..."

I kept scrolling until I found another birthday gifset dedicated to him. I don't remember exactly which gifset was, I just remember that I went completely in AWWW mode and I screamed "Ah ma che patato che è". That moment was like an epiphany for me, I really started to use that word more and more just for him. And then that word became his personal tag. Yup, his personal tag, my first personal tag, was born on his day. What a coincidence, uh? Since then, if I have enough fantasy, I always give a personal tag for every member of every group that I stan (I'm crazy, I know perfectly, don't worry).

So, yeah, if my blog has become even more "personal" for me, tagging wise, it's thanks to Taehyun.

Of course this is not the only reason why I love him. I don't know if it's just me but I noticed that Tae has a very special duality. Tae seems the most mature and chill member if you just watch a couple of TxT videos. A little savage, sure, but it seems the more mature, the voice of reason sometimes. But then you dive a little more deeper and you discover that, at the end of the day, he also loves bring chaos like the rest of the maknae line. He just has his way of being chaotic. I'll always remember the To Do episode where TxT were doing the Police Playbook and Tae did that magic trick with the pen out of the sudden. I'm still laughing about it. It's this duality that makes me love him even more.

I can't talk about Taehyun without mentioning my love for his voice. When I discovered TxT and I started to listen to their discography, Taehyun was the first vocalist I immediately recognized. Probably I should thanks his highnotes but, uhm...I don't think I just love him for that. I love the way he modulate his voice for every song. He immediately understands which song he's singing and he makes sure you can feel the right emotion while singing it. He's singing an happy and upbeat song? He makes sure to put a smile on your face while singing it. A sad and emotional song? You'll surely cry thanks to him. You get it. Singing is his way of "acting" for me. He knows how to communicate a certain feeling and, like a real actor, he makes sure you'll feel those emotions. And I love him for this.

Dear Taehyun, I don't have enough love words for your day. I only wish for you to never stop being curious. Trying new things and challenges has always been one of the best trait of yours and you demonstrated this with the last album too. Knowing how much work and energy you put every time, new challenges will be a new occasion to show to us more sides of you and I can't wait to see them. Don't worry about the result. Even when it's not perfect, MOAs will always appreciate your effort and your courage to try something new.

Hope you'll celebrate this day happily with the members and your family too, you deserve it.

Happy Birthday Taehyun 🐿️

[jinwoosbabyboo]

I've read your L&Ds stuff lolol AND MAN they're so accurate & super fun/engaging to read!

I really wanna know, how are you so good with coming up with ideas?? How do you write so well/how did you get started on writing?? I really want to learn how to write well!

First off I love your username 🤣 and I’m glad you find my writing fun to read I try my best to make it as pleasing as possible.

So I come up with ideas by just everyday life thinking like hmmm how would the lads men react to this or hmmm I could make this a story. I have a very active imagination and I’m a maladaptive daydreamer so that’s probably a big part of it.

I gained traction pretty fast on here so the other half (damn near the majority) of all the prompts on my blog are from 🩵my lovely followers🩵 who send in requests. You guys keep expanding my imagination and I can’t thank you enough for that 🫶🏾

How did I get started writing? My mother was an English teacher up until I was about 8 years old so she introduced me to reading and writing heavy growing up. I was always reading above my actual grade level.

I wrote my first “story” when I was in 3rd grade and I’ve been writing ever since. I’m also an avid reader; I love falling into another world through books.

That feeling I get from reading is what I translate into my writing. My writing on here is more fun and goofy than actual literature. I do write Novellas in my free time but I will probably never show them to anyone because I heavily critique my writing so much ☠️

Learning to write well is a journey and you’re always learning. I'm still learning ways to improve my writing. If you’re looking to start writing stories here’s a few tips I can give you.

‼️DISCLAIMER I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL‼️

These are just a few things I’ve learned. If you disagree that’s fine this is just what I’ve learned.

Avoid run on sentences

If you have a sentence that is getting a bit long find a stopping point and add a period. If you feel like it absolutely needs to be one sentence then break it up with a semicolon.

Break up your paragraphs

Long paragraphs with no breaks can make a reader gloss over your writing

Find your writing style

If you’re too busy trying to imitate the writing style of someone else you’ll find yourself stressed when trying to write your own work

Describe imagery

Tap into your readers imagination; describe what they’re looking at and what’s going on in great detail - build a world in your mind so you can help build one in their mind - if you have a hard time building the world in your own mind your reader will struggle as well.

Word vomit! Trust the process!

WRITE THOSE ROUGH DRAFTS - it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make any sense just get those words onto the page you can edit and revise later every piece starts rough get those rough drafts written and go from there.

Avoid repetitive sentences, words, & over explaining

For example “I reached over the fence to grab the flower that was on the other side of the fence” You see how at the beginning of the sentence it’s already been established that whatever the character is reaching for is on the other side of the fence. That’s just a quick example.

Study grammar and use a dictionary

There are many ways to describe just about anything and you don’t have to stay inside a box of simple words to do it.

Lastly, it sounds corny, but have fun.

If you want to write you should enjoy it and it’s just words on a page that you can edit and revise.

Happy Writing ✍🏾😘

[afterquartthoughts]

Life Lately Ep. 1

All about Nov to mid Dec 2024 happenings

A quick recap about everything that happened in the previous month until today.

1. Watched "Hello, Love Again" at the new SM jmall

Well, Aze definitely convinced me to watch this movie. I was not a fan of KathDen but I can't deny their chemisty, they're too kilig! I love the movie but I guess that it was not that worth it to watch in the cinema (??) It could also work as a "comfy watch together movie time" type of film. But for my love's request, we pushed through. Anyway, I never regret it. If he's happy, I'm happy too 💕

2. Shelda' visit at Lexmark Cebu

Shelda is our counterpart in Lexmark Lexington. She has a superior named Denise. I had fun meeting with Shelda, her visit here made our connection and rapour stronger. It was my first time to meet and talk with a foreign national and she was so kind and very genuine. Meeting and talking with her definitely helped me get better with my English skills 🤣

3. Announcement of our Year-End Bonus

After hearing that we hit our company yearly goals and the Year End Bonus is MAX, I got too excited as well. I am happy with my company's Christmas incentives and gift because it was totally different from my previous work. This month made me realized I'd like to extend my years of working here until Dec 2025 😅 ... but we will still see

4. my first award in the office

this is just a fun award given by my team when we had our christmas party. i always manifest that i'll earn that best performance certificate in the office. i sometimes envy, self blame, but i always remind myself that having this job is already a privilege. to have a problem like this because of my work is already a privilege. i always remind myself to have faith in myself and the right time will come, that i will be recognized

5. Team Pic :)

our year-end team picture in the office. happy to be part of this team

6. DX New Hire dance in the office

It's actually a type of initiation rights that new hires should dance in the office haha. It was fun and I had a self discovery that I can actually dance haha . i'll set a target to myself to have at least one proper tiktok dance haha

find me haha

7. my first every fashion show

i felt pressured at this time when i got picked by the team as the representative for our fashion show segment for our christmas party. if you know me, i am a super shy with low-self esteem girly. i am not used into this! huhu but luckily, we won! yehey. proud of myself that i pulled it off, even if it's still obvious that i was shaking inside haha. still an improvement :)

8. catching up with my girls

so after our christmas party in the office, frauline was in cebu already so we went out with my girlies to have a chit-chat hehe. we had a heart to heart talk where we discuss the issues we had with klaire about how she always late to replies on our messages and the misunderstanding we had with her. I learned at this time that talking and discussing the issue actually helps to heal and move forward. you just have to unfold the situation

9. Zed

Zed is not my pet. I do not own her. Aze owns her. She is so cute lately even if she is having her period. I actually put a boundary with regards to my attachment with Zed because I don't want to have that immense connection, what if one day me and Aze will break up then how can I move on if she will also be away from me too. Huhu it sucks

Anyway, she is so cute and so fluffy. I will include her in my blog because she deserves a spot in here too! I'll make a separate blog about her :)

If you reached here, thank you for reading my blog. This is my first episode of sharing the wonderful events that happened in my life. I hope that I inspire you to document your life too :)

[kingofbodyrolls]

Nooo don’t second guess yourself with the ‘old’ dialogue (I’m the same anon btw lol). Your writing is awesome! And honestly, it’s not in all the dialogue! Just some.

But you know what I think it was? I think it’s because I noticed you use ‘perhaps’ a lot 😂 like most people would just say ‘maybe’ and not the word ‘perhaps.’

There’s also the word ‘bear’ you use often, eg, “I can’t bear to be in a relationship with him” - I think I’ve just seen those two words so often in the story. ‘perhaps’ and ‘bear’ I hardly ever hear in conversation, so they just seem so old school to me 😂

First off, thank you so much for clarifying 🥹💜

And I totally see it now, that you point it out with specific examples (which, truly, thank you for that 🫂). I guess this is what can happen when English isn’t my first language 😂 When I write, sometimes my brain goes *boop* literal translation of the word in my mother language 🤭 Though I will say I’m intentionally trying to make the language more “novel” like? I don’t know if that makes sense (and I might read some totally weird ass books 🤣). 

But I would totally say ‘perhaps’ or ‘bear’ in daily speech (in my mother language). I also speak very formally and academically in speech, maybe that’s why it seeps into my writing 🤔 Thank you so much for pointing it out though, because no one ever has, and I can totally see your point with those words, so I’ll try to be more aware of the words that I use— I would like the dialogue to flow, and for that the words needs to be dynamic and if then ‘perhaps’ or ‘bear’ shows up, I can see how that might have the opposite effect 😬

Also, now that you point it out like that, I can totally see how they sound ‘old school’ and ‘bear’ is also such a heavy word, but in the context you showed, MC was being very dramatic (which I think ‘bear’ is— but maybe I should look up more synonyms (not necessarily for ‘bear’) but I used to do this before in my writing, because I know I tend to repeat the same words often 😬🫣

Anyway, I’m rambling a lot now. I wanted to thank you, especially for giving those examples, because I’m totally gonna search and replace some of them in the dialogue 😂 So thank you for making it easier for me too! 🫶

Also, I’m not trying to excuse my (poor) writing with the fact that English isn’t my first language, it’s just a fact— but I’m trying hard to improve, so thank you for clarifying 💜

I hope you have an awesome day/night 🌸

[startanewdream]

For the writing ask: 1, 12, 34!

Thank you! 🤗

1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?

Light beam, only because I keep feeling it should have been better written (more scenes, more something).

12. If you write in more than one language, what's the difference?

My mother language is Portuguese, there are hundreds of expressions you just can't translate (as I always complain to @sweeethinny) and I think that English is missing them 🤣 Other than that, I write in English when the fic is English because translating doesn't work well for me, but I can't really explain why.

34. Do you write to improve? Or is that not a concern for you?

Oh, I do, I think everyone does. I'm always trying to write at least a little better than the last thing I wrote :)

[skepticalarrie]

I just saw your English journey! Same as me. I migrated here in Australia when I was sixteen and I could barely put a sentence together. It was even harder because they’ve got this accent and slangs that are so different to American English that I was taught since I started school. It was even harder when I enrolled myself in a highschool here, I spent an entire year full of frustration with no progress in sight (my peers always encouraged me and often compliments me with how much progress I made but I was not seeing it so yk, I only believed it when I recieved an english excellence award after three gruelling years lol). I did the English test too, but not the EILST. I did the PTE tests (got a good result which made me happy) and it was sooo hard since it was all computerised and also cost over 300 Australian dollars each test so you really have to get it right the first if you don’t want to pay another 300+ for it.

I can communicate well but I still have limited vocabulary and really have to slow down when speaking verbally because I tend to speak really fast and gets tounge tied and starts to stutter when I am feeling pressured to speak. Every time I meet someone from my original country and they start speaking to me in the national language I get so confuse wether I should speak my native language, or the national language or English. It’s embarrassing sometimes when they look at me with confusion because three languages just gets put in one sentence altogether. 🤣 I agree with getting rusty right away, you really need to speak english always and bunos if it’s with native english speakers always so it improve your skill too. My grammars are still not perfect and I often find myself with so many mistakes and try to correct myself when I realised it.

Advice for your anon or anyone though, is that surround yourself with talkative and native english speakers because they are a really good help. Surrounding yourself with good communicators can go a long way. If you want progress in your english skills, separate yourself from people who speak the same language as you with little english and people who barely speaks english whilst still remaining polite and nice to them. It sounds bad or discriminatory if you put too much thought into it but it’s actually not. Believe me, that’s how I learn. You just want more and sometimes you have spread your wings for it. 🤷‍♀️

I always forget you’re not an english speaker until you starts speaking spanish or portuguese (sorry I can’t spell this) in my feed. 🤣

Oh wow, I imagine this must have been so hard for you, anon! I see a lot of similar stories from people who moved to a foreign country while not being familiar with the language quite yet, it must be really really hard. When I moved to the UK my english was already decent but I saw a lot of colleagues and friends struggling with it... I remember having a class with two girls and they could barely communicate in english. I was so anxious for them all the time because I could see how much they were struggling. But it was also nice to see how much they progressed over time!

But I totally agree with you, if you need to learn a language the best way to do it is to surround yourself with it.

[storm3326]

Hey!!!! It's the end of 2020 and I have some things to share and thank to you.

First thank you so much for even being there and sharing your art. You bring so much inspiration and comfort with your art, I just look at it and feel like I should continue trying to improve.

Second I've to thank you to introduce me into f1 world, I was there for tottenham art and you showed a new world to me with your arts. I started to following it weekly and really helped me to keep entertained (and sane) during quarantine. This introduction made me indirectly make new, and amazing, friends.

Third is just a really warm hug I wish I could give you, because that's how I feel when I see your art.

Happy holidays and an amazing new year💜

thank you so much! I feel like my english is not good enough to say what I want to say. it still surprises me that someone is spending their precious time to look at my drawings and even likes them? and shares them with others? I really appreciate all the supports of any form! 

glad to hear f1 helped you a bit during this whole pandemic thing!! it certainly was an exciting season! f1 is full of drama.. sexy cars... I love it🤣 

thank you again, happy holidays and happy new year! 

[joliebean]

Simmer- Get To Know

Tagged by: @ice-creamforbreakfast​ tysm!! 🥰

Languages you speak: My first language is Russian. I can speak pretty fluently English and a bit of French.

Are you a mermaid: Ew I hate fish

Your Playstyle: I live in Blender, PS and s4s. Does it count for playing? :D I like making sims as well, and I even have a legacy in my game. Though I barely play it atm.

Your Simself Picture:

It’s an old pic from 2017 don’t sue me.

Stories or Gameplay, builds, lookbooks, edits or cc: My body is ready for everything

Your favorite age state: Tbh I like playing all life stages, each of them have unique features! Ofc YA is the most exciting one since they are not limited and you can do most of things only with them, but limitations make the game fun, so I like children, teens, toddlers and elders too. If only infants weren’t so boring.

Your favorite season: Summer

Your favorite holiday: I assume in the sims game? I like winterfest a lot, and new year is fun too! I also always add leisure day to my game bc simmies deserve to have some fun in summertime. Irl I don’t have favourite holidays, they all make me sad :D

How was your day: I woke up 3 hrs ago so it’s pretty fine by far.

Your favorite career: The rabbit hole ones xD

Your favorite aspiration: There are basically no aspirations in ts4 so I’ll choose one from ts2. I guess it will be wealth, tbh I like to choose in ts4 life goals career\money related too. Romance\family will be my second favourite choice.

Your favorite EP, SP or GP: Seasons, Parenthood, Laundry Day

How old is your Simblr: I’ve started it in 2015 so this summer it will be 5 years old!

Have you woohooed: who wrote this question??

Your favorite skill: Handiness, Cooking, Photography, Charisma

The size of your mods folder: 5,75GB, mostly cas items

Your 3 favorite mods: 5 columns mod, ui cheat extensions, safe fireplaces ;D

Your interests (other than the sims): Videogames in general, makeup, scrolling memes when I should be sleeping

Your favorite Sim (picture if possible):

I’ve made her in 2018 and she’s my fav since then. I struggle not to put her on every single of my preview.

Same for this bad boy. He even made to my legacy, prob he’s one of favourite male sims I’ve ever made.

Which Sims games have you played (including mobile games): TS2 to TS4, Medieval, Castaway stories and that online Sims game on FB xD

Propose a crazy scheme: Don’t judge other ppl’s gameplay!

Best part of Simblr: I’ve met bunch of lovely people here, and the creativity of this community is something. Tbh the whole game depends on the community bc new content and improvements are released every single day by the community for free. No developer can do such a thing.

Worst part of Simblr: You steal from *creator name*!! Guys, we work with the same meshes, that’s why sometimes cc can be similar. Stop dissing others, when such incidents happen it is never intentionally. + toxic anon hate. I don’t understand why you spend your time sending someone hate. When I don’t like something, I just go further and never go back to this thing. Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to do on the Internet.

What other games you play: My favs are: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, The Witcher, Resident Evil, Nancy Drew (dont @ me). I play other games too but I dont bother to count them rn.

Other websites or accounts (Origin, Twitter, etc…): I have only twitter related to the sims, so you can check it in my nav if you’re interested

Are you single: yes, so set up me with your cute brothers and cousins who are around 20-30 y.o. 🤣

I tag @anotherplumbob​ @alxandergoth​ @ophelia-nygmos​ @ivypots​ @teekalu​ @furbynurbs​ @clumsyalienn​ @saurussims​

[akane171]

Considering the SPN fandom, I would be very surprised if there aren't any fics of that...😅

Jup, just one person only focused on continuity, consistency, details etc would be brilliant...😫

Yes, citing. The worst devil you can encounter in life... Like, seriously, not enough that it's a confusing mess anyway, but then there are also different approaches to this confusing mess and it feels like EVERYBODY is doing it differently...😫😑😭 (Thanks for the "cheerleading"😂😊🙈)

Unfinished, unwritten, po-tae-to, po-tah-to 🤷🏻‍♀️ An unfinished fic just means it still has stuff to come that is yet unwritten🤷🏻‍♀️

(Ahhh🤣) Ohhh, yesss😍 More of Karamel, Baree (Btw, I'm still grinning like an idiot over that name, but he's SO ADORABLE!) and the kiddos💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

Considering there seem to be at least 2 more Arcs to PiaD and the way most prior Arcs had about 20 long-ass chapters, I don't doubt that you'll finish before LW🤣

"Surviving"?😂😅 Oh god, what kind of language classes did they make you suffer?!🙈 But Ohh, it's actually a pretty common phenomenon that people's English improve with watching/writing stuff cause practical usage and authentic experience blahblah ��🤩 (sorry random unnecessary explanation about language learning🤦🏻‍♀️)

I mean, it's already on my list (which has like 13 languages or so I still wanna learn), but I've been slacking on spanish and romanian and should probably pick those two up properly first since I already started on those...😩 I swear, I need more time to just do stupid shit like binge stuff, write fanfics and LEARN languages and practical skills and all this stuff one would like to but never gets around to learning😭 (I just googled that sentence... "A beetle sounds in the reed"?🤔 Did you mean sth by that or did you write it cause apparently(?) it's the hardest tongue-twister?🤣)

HAHAHA 😂 

Soonish?🤨 Hate you? ...WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING TO OUR POOR KARAMELY COMEDIC DUO IDIOTS?!?! *Goes to grab the protective bazookas* 😭 ...Wait, please don't say Kara is gonna be an idiot with her feet absolutely down her throat like in that bar scene in S2 when she went to tell Mon-El she would never be with him because of the way he is...🙈 

That Cartoon is one of the classics🤷🏻‍♀️😂

XXXXXXXX

I know. As much as i like to stay away from that fandom, they created some amazing shit xD

I mean, come on, how much one person could cost? On the other hand, maybe IGNORING canon was something what they simply do, because they were too dumb to follow their own story. The fact the s6 made absolutely no sense, is just a cherry on the top *sarcasm*

What can I say, my friend, the pain of higher education xD

There is the difference. Unfinished fics need to be finished. About unwritten we can speculate and have a nice conversation :PPP

Happy to hear XD i mean, there was two names for the dog i could have chosen, Kazan and Baree. I think we both can agree the choice was obvious xD i can't imagine a dog called Kazan chasing butterflies xD

Yep. On the other hand, my other ideas for otehr kms fics are extremely long and complicated, but well, you don't look like you would wnat to talk about them, so :(

I mean, typical English classes? Learning grammar and vocabulary in not effecting way, learning shit you will never really use with normal people etc. Learning it felt like, dunno, learning some math issues that you KNOW you will never use in life too and becasue you are not going to choose some science college degree, you don't see any sense in learning it. So, in that case it was surviving. The moment I started needing it, I started really learning it. Aka, bascially, reading fics and books some time later xD... and writing fics, because some people refused to write things I wanted to read, lol

Oooooooooh, that sounds super cool! So you learn languages in th easy way? I'm so jealous! I have learnt French and German in school, but never really got to the higher level than "i want to buy beer" xD And i have learnt Japanese for 5 years at university and I can say more in it (but seriosuly i have too come back to it and refresh it).

In my case, I feel comfortable in a foreign language when I can think in it. What means I feel like that only about English and Polish xD

It's our most famous Polish line for kids and we use it when we want to scare foreigners away :P

My beta did her magic, so it will be post soon! No, don't worry, not this kind of angst. What probably means, you should worry about other stuff xDDDD

Yes, it is, and the opening song just drill into your BRAIN (xD) and after so many years I still can sing it xD